Re: Application design & architecture

Trevor

Trevor Perry wrote:

Joe!!

This is ridiculous.

SOA is NOT new!! It is a compilation of BEST PRACTICES. The things that you do are most likely SOA already! For example, your FTP solution could be SOA. Who said it was not? YOU!

It seems like the people who are pushing back the hardest are the ones who are positioned the best to take advantage of SOA. All of your complaints are misguided and misinformed. SOA is not a panacea, but another step into the future. If you look at the future of the web - that is, web2 or Semantic Wave - you will see that SOA is one of the prerequisites to moving to that future.

SOA is simply not that complicated. By making it complicated, you and Rob can say it is wrong,

but all you are doing is simply misunderstanding and now, misdirecting the readers with your abject ignorance on the subject.

Your argument is simply that the world is flat. The advocates of flatness cannot see beyond their own four walls. The world is not flat, and SOA is no longer a religious argument. It is a reality, and as a community we need to understand it. Misdirecting the System i community as to SOA is only going to provide more ways for people to argue against the i. And then, we are all out of a job.

I remain positive, in the face of complete ignorance.

Rob